Mech Master - Master Mech (Animated)

[RayMobula]

Hello There!
I finally completed the mech.
Got carried away.

Video

Blender - Mech Demo

Lessons learned:

• Have or draw a reference mech 1st
• Model the overall shape first before adding details
• Work on straight objects, before you angle them. The legs had been a pain (but I’m ‘fluent’ now with the ways to align vertexes, edges, surfaces)
• Ways of animating cameras - (edit) Used 5 in total
• Love / Hate relation with the mirror tool
• Loop Tools is your friend to tweak meshes, make circular holes or bridges
• The array modifier … what the heck! All glowing vents and the spinning vent uses it
• Using the cursor more efficiently
• There is always something to tweak …
• Final comp done in DaVinci Resolve

Cheers,
Ray.

@Grant_Abbitt

[Grant_Abbitt]

Good work

[Dwayne]

Great job. I’m curious what are the 5 ways to animate the camera? Follow curve, follow path constraint, and keyframe are the only ones I can think of.

[RayMobula]

Opps - I see. I wanted to say I used five cameras. And the methods you mentioned.

I also came across <Shift + `>, which allows to move the camera like a player in an FPS game.

I shouldn’t stay up until 1:30 in the night and post stuff. 1st thing now, coffee.

[MellowToad]

Looks great! How did you animate the rotating light on top?

[RayMobula]

Thank you

Very simple approach.
I placed an empty in the center of the beacon.

Then parented the beacon to the empty.

Place a small area light insight the beacon housing (?). And play around with the size and strength.

And parented the area light to the empty.

Because I don’t know yet(!) how make the beacon material behave like glass, I assigned a few faces a new material slot with an emission shader.

In the animation tab, have the empty spin 360 deg in 13 frames.

To “auto-repeat” the rotation, set the extrapolation mode to Linear extrapolation.

That’s it.

I used the same approach to have the fan spin too.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ray

[MellowToad]

Wow thanks so much for sharing! Exactly what I was looking for

[RayMobula]

Any time.